English
Related papers

Related papers: Loss Patterns of Neural Networks

200 papers

Viewing neural network models in terms of their loss landscapes has a long history in the statistical mechanics approach to learning, and in recent years it has received attention within machine learning proper. Among other things, local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yaoqing Yang , Liam Hodgkinson , Ryan Theisen , Joe Zou , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Kannan Ramchandran , Michael W. Mahoney

This paper surveys studies on the use of neural networks for optimization in the training-data-free setting. Specifically, we examine the dataless application of neural network architectures in optimization by re-parameterizing problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Alvaro Velasquez , Susmit Jha , Ismail R. Alkhouri

We study the optimization landscape of deep linear neural networks with the square loss. It is known that, under weak assumptions, there are no spurious local minima and no local maxima. However, the existence and diversity of non-strict…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-26 El Mehdi Achour , François Malgouyres , Sébastien Gerchinovitz

This study investigates the potential accuracy boundaries of physics-informed neural networks, contrasting their approach with previous similar works and traditional numerical methods. We find that selecting improved optimization algorithms…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Jorge F. Urbán , Petros Stefanou , José A. Pons

This study proposes a method to enhance neural network performance when training data and application data are not very similar, e.g., out of distribution problems, as well as pattern and regime shifts. The method consists of three main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jan Saynisch-Wagner , Saran Rajendran Sari

Learning to Optimize is a recently proposed framework for learning optimization algorithms using reinforcement learning. In this paper, we explore learning an optimization algorithm for training shallow neural nets. Such high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Ke Li , Jitendra Malik

In recent years, there is a growing interest in combining techniques attributed to the areas of Statistics and Machine Learning in order to obtain the benefits of both approaches. In this article, the statistical technique lasso for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-08 David Delgado , Ernesto Curbelo , Danae Carreras

The coincidence similarity index, based on a combination of the Jaccard and overlap similarity indices, has noticeable properties in comparing and classifying data, including enhanced selectivity and sensitivity, intrinsic normalization,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Optimization of non-convex loss surfaces containing many local minima remains a critical problem in a variety of domains, including operations research, informatics, and material design. Yet, current techniques either require extremely high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Amil Merchant , Luke Metz , Sam Schoenholz , Ekin Dogus Cubuk

A novel multi-level method for partial differential equations with uncertain parameters is proposed. The principle behind the method is that the error between grid levels in multi-level methods has a spatial structure that is by good…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Yous van Halder , Benjamin Sanderse , Barry Koren

Model merging combines independent solutions with different capabilities into a single one while maintaining the same inference cost. Two popular approaches are linear interpolation, which simply averages multiple model weights, and task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chenxiang Zhang , Alexander Theus , Damien Teney , Antonio Orvieto , Jun Pang , Sjouke Mauw

Training a neural network requires navigating a high-dimensional, non-convex loss surface to find parameters that minimize this loss. In many ways, it is surprising that optimizers such as stochastic gradient descent and ADAM can reliably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Conor Rowan , Finn Murphy-Blanchard

Deep learning models form one of the most powerful machine learning models for the extraction of important features. Most of the designs of deep neural models, i.e., the initialization of parameters, are still manually tuned. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Mrittika Chakraborty , Wreetbhas Pal , Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay , Ujjwal Maulik

Optimization methods play a crucial role in modern machine learning, powering the remarkable empirical achievements of deep learning models. These successes are even more remarkable given the complex non-convex nature of the loss landscape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Rustem Islamov , Niccolò Ajroldi , Antonio Orvieto , Aurelien Lucchi

A method is presented that allows to reduce a problem described by differential equations with initial and boundary conditions to the problem described only by differential equations. The advantage of using the modified problem for…

In this work, we propose a multi-stage training strategy for the development of deep learning algorithms applied to problems with multiscale features. Each stage of the pro-posed strategy shares an (almost) identical network structure and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Eric Chung , Wing Tat Leung , Sai-Mang Pun , Zecheng Zhang

A significant advance in accelerating neural network training has been the development of normalization methods, permitting the training of deep models both faster and with better accuracy. These advances come with practical challenges: for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jasmine Collins , Johannes Balle , Jonathon Shlens

Data rebalancing techniques, including oversampling and undersampling, are a common approach to addressing the challenges of imbalanced data. To tackle unresolved problems related to both oversampling and undersampling, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Karen Medlin , Sven Leyffer , Krishnan Raghavan

In the following paper we present a new type of optimization algorithms adapted for neural network training. These algorithms are based upon sequential operator splitting technique for some associated dynamical systems. Furthermore, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Cristian Daniel Alecsa , Titus Pinta , Imre Boros

The minimization of loss functions is the heart and soul of Machine Learning. In this paper, we propose an off-the-shelf optimization approach that can minimize virtually any non-differentiable and non-decomposable loss function (e.g.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Josif Grabocka , Randolf Scholz , Lars Schmidt-Thieme